Love You a Bushel and a Peck
Since, faith is a huge part of southern life, (being part of the Bible Belt...
Mercy, Incognito
On this "Thoughtful Thursday," I'd like to share a few wise words from Solomon. In...
A Southern Funeral After 100 Years of Life
A Southern Funeral
My husband’s grandmother lived 100 years. As my daughter said in her eulogy, she “saw 36,534 sunrises and 36,534 sunsets with her last being June 3, 2016.”
Listen, He Speaks
A friend of mine recently posted on Facebook that there were times when the depression was almost unbearable. She is on her medication, she is praying, she is seeking ways to overcome.
The Neon Life
My precious niece is leading a Discipleship Now retreat this weekend and the theme is “The Neon Life.” She asked several of our family members to send her a story of how we have experienced the light of Christ in our own lives.
Forgiving Your Abuser
February is the month of love and with it comes thoughts of warmth and thoughts of cold. Warm fires, warm hearts filled with love on special date nights are the things we think of first in February. But for some, there are cold memories that bring up pure hatred of abusers they may be living with now; or perhaps they are haunted by the memory of wicked acts performed against them in their past. Valentine’s Day can be a dreaded holiday or a favorite holiday. Allow me to introduce you to a strong, heroic woman who has learned that forgiving your abuser(s) helps to set you free.
How to Love Difficult People
Down here in the heart of Dixie where our family and friendship roots run deep, you’d never dream that we sometimes have trouble getting along with each other. Forgetting the Hatfield clan with a patriarch by the name of “Devil Anse;” for the most part we are a civil society. Still, we do encounter people from time to time who are just hard to love. So how can we mind our manners and learn to love difficult people?
Bringing Home the Yule Log
Bringing home the yule log in certain European countries involves picking a special “block” of wood to burn on Christmas Eve. The Yule Log that I am referring to will be consumed, but hopefully, never burned. When my kids were little, our traditional Christmas meal dessert was a yule log cake.
Yada, Yada, Yada
I’m sure most of you are familiar with Seinfeld’s episode called “The Yada, Yada,” but did you know that yada in Hebrew means to ascertain by seeing. Today’s post is all about the yada, yada, yada from Psalm 139:23:
Christmas in Callaway Gardens
Man was created in a garden where he walked and talked with his Creator in...